I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, ...

Dec. 4, 2013— -- Anyone who's hooked up a USB device to their computer knows it's a slightly irritating process. You switch between sticking it in upside down and rightside up, jiggling it ...

The Apple device contains the socket, and the cable or docking station has the plug. In 2012, the original 30-pin analog+digital interface was replaced with the 8-pin all-digital Lightning connector.

The mini-USB (released in April 2000, in conjunction with USB 2.0) and follow-on micro-USB (January 2007) standards responded to this demand. In both cases, GND moved from pin 4 (on standard Type-A ...

The USB Promoter Group says the Type-C connector is rated to the same 10,000 cycles as Micro-USB, though I'm sure the more-complex design and smaller pins might cause some issues.

Male USB Type-A connectors have a plastic tab at the bottom, ... which slots into the male connector when you plug it in. The USB connection occurs when those two sets of contacts touch one another.

A leak suggests an upcoming Surface Dock might use a USB-C plug to connect to Microsoft’s laptop lineup rather than the company’s proprietary Surface connector and support Thunderbolt 4.